It comes and goes but you guys should consider the glass half full. It's very dificult nowadays to hear any "hardcore" at a party which isn't pretty much dominated by the dutch sound. Personally, I do think the genre has gotten very stale. The new dutch "industrial" sound just feels like more hype to me. It's going to be abused to death until it's just as boring as every other formula. Then, most other artists are either playing off of the frech sound or the Deathchant style stuff. I haven't found much inspiration in any of it lately. It's been practically a year since I completed a new hardcore track and, aside from that one, I've started maybe 3-4. I've recently found the politics in it now too to be just as annoying/dificult if I was playing mainstream pop. Didn't always feel this way but, given the reindeer games involved, I've been writing music that stands to have a larger audience if I have to deal with the same political BS. In hardcore, givn the small number of people into it, it's practically pointless.